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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What literary agency do Rushdie and Roth share?
(a) Veritas.
(b) InkWell.
(c) Wylie.
(d) BJ Robbins.
2. What message does Vonnegut’s work assert is encoded in Stonehenge?
(a) “You will be on your way before you know it.”
(b) “Pack up your things and be ready to leave on short notice.”
(c) “Be patient. We haven’t forgotten you.”
(d) “Replacement part being rushed with all possible speed.”
3. In what year did Heller publish Catch-22?
(a) 1961.
(b) 1964.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1962.
4. From which of the following does Rushdie note borrowing?
(a) Artha Shastra.
(b) Brihat Katha.
(c) Mudra Raksasha.
(d) Katha Sarit Sagara.
5. Which of the following is Rushdie’s first published novel?
(a) The Antagonist.
(b) Madame Rama.
(c) Grimus.
(d) Midnight’s Children.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which of the following is noted as the original title of the Thousand Nights and One Night?
2. To which of the following does Rushdie compare Kurt Vonnegut?
3. In what translation does Rushdie note having first read One Hundred Years of Solitude?
4. As which of the following does Rushdie gloss "shanti"?
5. The phrase “sui generis” most nearly means which of the following?
Short Essay Questions
1. What lessons does Rushdie find in the story of Orpheus and Eurydice?
2. What does Rushdie remark the phase “so it goes” is used to euphemize?
3. What does Rushdie note was his first attraction to Thousand Nights and One Night?
4. What does Rushdie identify as the primary value of the protean in literature?
5. What, from context, does Rushdie mean by saying “English, I understood, could be chutnified” (91)?
6. What reason for enjoying Andersen’s “The Snow Queen” does Rushdie note?
7. How does Rushdie report Slaughterhouse-Five presents war?
8. Why does Rushdie note that the Philip Roth Lecture he gives takes Roth as its topic?
9. For what reason does Rushdie report Scheherazade pled for her life to be spared by her husband?
10. Why does Rushdie note he initially resisted reading One Hundred Years of Solitude?
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